Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required > to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list. > FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement. > > = Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB > > * Detailed description: > MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL database project that provides a drop-in > replacement for MySQL. It preserves API/ABI compatibility with MySQL and > adds some new features. > > The original company behind MySQL, MySQL AB, were bought out by Sun which was > then bought by Oracle. Recent changes made by Oracle indicate they are moving > the MySQL project to be more closed. They are no longer publishing any useful > information about security issues (CVEs), and they are not providing complete > regression tests any more, and a very large fraction of the mysql bug database > is now not public. > > MariaDB, which was founded by some of the original MySQL developers, has a more > open-source attitude and an active community. We have found them to be much > easier to work with, especially in regards to security matters. > > We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in early development cycle for > Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but > MariaDB will become the default. Also, we do not intend to support concurrent > installation of both packages on the same machine; pick one or the other. What does it mean to replace it as the default if neither is ever installed in a default 'next -> next -> next' installation? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
